THE RED, OR COPPER-COLOURED RACE. 



An American Indian. 



LESSON XIII. 



THE RED, OR COPPER-COLOURED RACE. 



THE original natives of America form a fourth 

 race, not less different in colour, than distinct in 

 habitation, from the rest of mankind. All the 

 savage tribes of this vast continent, with the ex- 

 ception, as we have seen, of the Esquimaux, are 

 of a red, or copper colour. In the old world (that 

 is, in Europe, Asia, and Africa) diversity of cli- 

 mate never fails to produce difference of complex- 

 ion ; but among the original tribes of America, 

 (called the new world, because it was not discover- 

 ed by the Europeans till about 350 years ago,) that 

 effect is not so perceptible : so that, among its 

 various nations, there is scarcely any difference in 

 colour, and less than might be expected in the 

 shape of the body and the features of the face. 

 They have all high cheek-bones, small noses and 

 eyes, thickf black, coarse hair, and remarkably 

 thin beards. Both men and women paint their 



